Yesterday was a day to experiment.
I have not worked out the colors for the jacks… In general I like the book colors, but how to do them.
I have the legs on the bases and I have used Molten Bronze and a test blue that I don’t like..
I did the Molten Bronze, Trollblood Base and Pig Iron on all of them.. I did a black wash on the steel and blue and a brown wash on the Bronze…
The bronze was really a coppery color and I wanted it a little more yellow…
I took one of Mariners legs and did a experiment. I took a 50/50 mix of Brass Balls and Rucksack Tan. The mix look like a yellow/brown metal, not to shinny … I did a dry brush of the Bronze. By accident I got some of the mix on the blue. It lightened it up a little… but the blue was almost gone, so I did a thing P3 Blue Ink wash… One drop of ink, one or two drops of Matt Medium 3-4 drops of flow improver.
I am really happy with this, I have done some of the basecoat on the bodies and arms…
I may do the wash with a very thing mix of Blue/Green ink on the bronze to give it a sea water corrosion look… I guess there is still some old salt in me….
I also saw Ruth. She finished her second Sea Dog. She thought of doing the hat in that purple, but decided to on the brown…
Damn, she has a good eye for colors… Notice that she did the purple on the hat band… nice touch. The Arrrgyle is just amazing to me…
I am not sure what I will get done today… Dentist this afternoon… I guess I need to follow my own advice…
Just do it…
